From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Laurent Vivier Subject: Re: Failure to boot CDROM with -drive arg Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:54:51 +0200 Message-ID: <1215507291.3805.7.camel@frecb07144> References: <20080708083730.GC24934@redhat.com> <1215506898.3805.5.camel@frecb07144> <20080708085109.GD24934@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: "Daniel P. Berrange" Return-path: Received: from ecfrec.frec.bull.fr ([129.183.4.8]:57506 "EHLO ecfrec.frec.bull.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753855AbYGHIyx (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2008 04:54:53 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080708085109.GD24934@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Le mardi 08 juillet 2008 =C3=A0 09:51 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange a =C3=A9= crit : > On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 10:48:18AM +0200, Laurent Vivier wrote: > > Le mardi 08 juillet 2008 =C3=A0 09:37 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange a =C3= =A9crit : > > > The following two command lines should be identical from the user= 's > > > point of view: > > >=20 > > > # qemu-kvm -cdrom /home/berrange/boot.iso -boot d -m 500 > > >=20 > > > # qemu-kvm -drive file=3D/home/berrange/boot.iso,if=3Dide,media=3D= cdrom,index=3D2,boot=3Don -m 500 > > >=20 > >=20 > > "-cdrom /home/berrange/boot.iso" is identical to > > "-drive file=3D/home/berrange/boot.iso,index=3D1,media=3Dcdrom" > >=20 > > with if=3Dide by default. > >=20 > > Could you try you command line without "boot=3Don" ? >=20 > Yep, that works - so its clearly something todo with the extboot supp= ort I think "boot=3Don" must be used only with device that are not managed = by the bios (scsi, virtio-blk, ...). We should modify the command line interface to check that... Laurent --=20 --------- Laurent.Vivier@bull.net ---------- "=EF=BB=BF=EF=BB=BFL'avenir ne se pr=C3=A9voit pas, il se pr=C3=A9pare.= " - Maurice Blondel